Windows users are no stranger to malware of various sorts, though the infection rate has decreased in some ways over the years. As with all browsers, Chrome is vulnerable to infections by those who take advantage of lax extensions security, with users installing (or in some cases, having installed without consent) malicious extensions. Google has […]
Microsoft has pushed out Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, expanding availability of the latest version of the browser from just Windows 8/8.1 machines. The release – in 95 languages – will eventually be pushed out automatically, Microsoft says, with the promise of a 30-percent real-world boost in performance versus IE10. There’s also more security, […]
Yesterday, a huge fire destroyed the Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center, which digitally preserves all manner of books, films and microfilms for future use.
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Technology is directly involved in our daily lives, making it more convenient, more efficient, and more entertaining. There’s another side to technological advances that we don’t see on the daily, however, and it is arguably the most important of them all — the ability to prevent crimes that otherwise would slip under the radar. Such […]
Twitter has been undergoing the long process of going public, something that started as a rumor and eventually surfaced as a business-move-in-progress that has been moving steadily forward. Tomorrow marks the company’s trading debut, and ahead of this Twitter has announced its IPO pricing as $26 per share on 70,000,000 shares of common stock. The […]
If there’s one thing cops don’t like, it’s being disrespected. So when some renegade launches a clone of Silk Road, the underground drug marketplace that Feds recently shut down, they’re just begging to get arrested. They even made the homepage a spoof of an FBI-seized domain. That’s disrespectful!
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The city of Los Angeles has an ambitious goal to bring gigabit Internet access to every home and business in the city. The city has announced that it will be issuing a request for proposals next month looking for a vendor that will run fiber to every residence, business, and government building within Los Angeles. […]
Journalist Andrew Blum’s deep spelunking tour through the geography of the internet—the crawlspaces and warehouses where the wires and cables really go, the actual, physical "tubes" of international data transfer
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Digg just launched Digg Video, a clearing house for the funny/weird/interesting/actually educational videos the internet bubbles up. Digg says a mobile version is coming soon, too, so you’ll never be without distraction ever again. [Digg Blog]
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In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb. I’ve been managing it remotely for the past year. This post includes everything I learned as well as some revenue numbers.
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